Today’s Links (11/09/08)

• Improving my Delicious command for Ubiquity - 0xDECAFBAD - Mozilla Firefox
  Great improvements, but this also highlights how counter-intuitive/confusing Ubiquity commands can be (see my comments on the post - it took me ages to work out how to use the new features, and I still can’t do my usual ‘quote something from the page I’m bookmarking, then add my own comment’ thing).
• PGP, IBM help Bletchley Park raise funds | News - Security - CNET News
  ‘A campaign will be launched on Tuesday to ask U.S. tech companies to help save Bletchley Park, whose wartime work helped lay the foundations of modern computing and crytography. ‘
• Panic - Extras - Miscellanous Bits of Panic
  Panic are giving away Transmit 1.7 for OS 9, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the app. I’m pretty sure Transmit (née Transit) is the only app I’ve used for ten years. Though nowadays it only gets launched very occasionally, thanks to ExpanDrive, which suits my light use of SFTP much better.
• Servers at Sea
  Interesting look at Google’s plans for wave-powered/sea water-cooled data centres on off-shore barges.
• WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string
• Ironic Sans presents: Ow, My Eyes!
  Here’s my verson of this page: If your site has a dark background and light text, you are a fucking dickhead. And I fucking hate you. You fucker.
• Obama is RESTful » Idol Hands: Days in the Life of an Alpha Geek
  "I spent some time this morning examining the technology policies of Barack Obama and John McCain. aside, was immediately struck by differences between their sites. So what do two sites say about candidates?"
• snaptrip - authenticate
  "snaptrip is a web application that aims to give you a better view of your past trips in Dopplr, including working with Flickr."
• Hardformat » Various Artists - Recovery
  I'm a sucker for a box set of vinyl, and a sucker for cover versions. So I bought a copy.
• Hardformat - Reaching for the sublime in music design.
  Does what it says on the tin. Well, less 'tin', more 'laser etched recycled cardboard sleeve with hand drawn tracing paper inserts'.
• PostSpectacular: Faber Finds generative book covers
  "A year ago Faber & Faber commissioned me to help with the design of a software system to generate complete & print ready book covers for their new imprint. The challenge proved to be more of a creative than a technical one, as the task given was to build a “design machine” which would be flexible enough to generate a very large (theoretically infinite) number of unique designs, one for each single book ever printed in this range, within the agreed boundaries set by the art direction(s) of Faber design team."
• precipitate - Google Code
  Search your stuff on Google Docs from Spotlight. (I don't use Google Docs, but really like this sort of integration between the desktop and web services.)

Posted at 10am on 11/09/08 by Jack Mottram to the links category.
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